77808Bryan, Texas

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 77808.

78out of 100
Area Score
Top 4% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 15% of 6,210 published ZIP areas74
GrowthTop 1% of 5,428 published ZIP areas87
Housing affordabilityTop 17% of 6,685 published ZIP areas97
Climate3691st of 6,789 published ZIP areas69
Physical resilienceTop 26% of 6,709 published ZIP areas77
Access6401st of 6,791 published ZIP areas58
Economic stabilityTop 41% of 6,742 published ZIP areas64
The quick read

77808 ranks in the top 15% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 4.3% and median household income of $113,343.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 1,357 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 50% on the prior year.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 14% of median household income and the median home is 3.3 times it.

At a glance

Population
15,797
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$113,343
Top 12% nationally
Density
62/sq mi
253.6 sq mi of land
Median age
40.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Bryan
Texas
Metro area
College Station-Bryan, TX
Nearest major airport
CNW
73 mi · Tstc Waco
Median home value
$375,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.3% is lower than 56% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.3% over the past year, to 45,778 employed residents.

39% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 78% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 88% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$15,565$113,343Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,535$46,471Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate7.2%Bottom 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute25.0 minBottom 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher38.9%Top 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment45,778Bottom 45%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)5.7%Top 4%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.3%Top 34%June 2026
Labor force47,810Bottom 45%June 2026
Labor force participation63.4%Top 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$57,060Bottom 9%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$44,470Bottom 6%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.7%Top 21%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.3%Bottom 44%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024113k74k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $113,343 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — College Station-Bryan, TX
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers5,270$27,420
Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary4,370$57,790
General and Operations Managers3,250$87,910
Retail Salespersons3,120$28,800
Registered Nurses2,950$83,090
Customer Service Representatives2,500$37,190

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Bryan, TX, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 13.6 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
2
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
13.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
JAMES EARL RUDDER H SBRYAN ISD1,69713.4
MITCHELL ELBRYAN ISD42614.732%37%

77.5% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Texas’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,367 takes 14% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.3 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
14.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,367
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$375,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.31Top 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate90.5%Top 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4206,171Top 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$410$1,367Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$21,600$375,000Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income14.5%Bottom 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate7.8%Bottom 37%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
87/ 100
Top 1% of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

At 15.4 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
1,357
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
15.4
Top 5% nationally
Year over year
+50%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
32.9%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Bryan, TX, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 95°F and January a low of 41°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 41.8 inches.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station COLLEGE STN, 14.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation41.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low41°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high95°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing34°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

77 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, hail and drought.

HailModerate
HurricaneModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, lightning, cold wave, heat wave, winter weather, strong wind, ice storm, inland flooding, wildfire, earthquake, landslide.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Brazos County records 2.8 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 9.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 5.8 per 100,000 residents in Brazos County.

Homicide
2.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
5.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
11.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Brazos County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 77808 rather than 77808 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 73 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Tstc WacoCNW73 mi8,600 ft
George Bush Intcntl/HoustonIAH81 mi12,001 ft
Sugar Land RgnlSGR90 mi8,000 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

77808 vs Bryan

How this ZIP area compares with Bryan as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

77808
Bryan
Median household income
$113,343
vs
$59,289
Per capita income
$46,471
vs
$31,849
Population density
62/sq mi
vs
1,589/sq mi
Median home value
$375,000
vs
$227,800
Median gross rent
$1,367
vs
$1,195
Homeownership rate
90.5%
vs
50.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher
38.9%
vs
30.1%
Poverty rate
7.2%
vs
23.0%
Median age
40.1
vs
32.0

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.